| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +8h | Becomes +9h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | ±0h | |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 31 Oct |
Hamilton, Canada runs on UTC−4. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. Hamilton and New York currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Hamilton lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Hamilton and London is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–13:00 in Hamilton lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Hamilton and Tokyo is 13 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Toronto, Havana, Washington DC. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Hamilton.
Hamilton (Canada) is home to roughly 570K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:15, sunset at 19:03. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Canada
Capital
Ottawa
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/Toronto
Coordinates
43.26°N, 79.87°W
Currency
CAD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Hamilton sits astride the Niagara Escarpment and has over a hundred waterfalls within its boundaries — more than any other city its size in the world, which is why it calls itself the waterfall capital.
The clock: Hamilton keeps Eastern Time. It produced the majority of Canadian steel for most of the 20th century.
Hamilton lies at 79.9°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 4.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 19 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:19 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 79 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:19.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 24m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 58m. The swing between them is 6h 25m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Hamilton the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:38, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 21:04. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Hamilton that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 36 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Hamilton, Canada is America/Toronto with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Hamilton has an estimated population of 570K and is located at coordinates 43.26°N, 79.87°W.
Hamilton gets 15h 24m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 58m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Hamilton falls at about 12:19 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 4.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City on an Escarpment: Hamilton sits astride the Niagara Escarpment and has over a hundred waterfalls within its boundaries — more than any other city its size in the world, which is why it calls itself the waterfall capital.